Move Read Spell
Human Health and Behavior
Adalyn Shipley
- Grade:
- 6
- Teacher:
- Kelsey Gwozdz
I created a movable alphabet and reading passages in OpenDyslexic font that improved spelling and reading accuracy for first through third graders with dyslexia.
This is a meaningful project with a strong personal connection, and it’s clear you wanted to help younger students who may struggle the way you did. Your design is impressive; you didn’t just test an idea, you built a real Montessori-style learning tool and compared two fonts in a fair way. You also collected clear results and included both accuracy and student preference, which makes your findings more complete. This project shows creativity, empathy, and real-world impact for students with dyslexia.
Congratulations on this thoughtful and impactful work. Your findings show how font design affects reading accuracy and learning for students with dyslexia, aiding efforts to improve accessibility and outcomes. Science looks forward to your future experiments. Wishing you the best in your research and exploration.
Excellent project exploring how OpenDyslexic font may improve reading and spelling for students with dyslexia. I was especially impressed that you designed and built your own movable alphabet and tested it with real students. Your graphs and data clearly showed the differences between fonts and helped support your conclusions. This project has meaningful real-world applications for helping children with dyslexia learn to read and spell more effectively.
This is a great work! I am super proud of you to be able to come up with this. This is highly commendable. Congratulations.